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ffcheFJERALD Home Newspaper of Hills A Division of Canadian Newspapers Company Limited Main St South Georgetown Ontario WILLIAM EVDOKIMOFF Publisher Second Mull Number Go Ask Alice worth reading Parents owe those who have criticized the use of the book Go Ask Alice in Halton schools a great deal of thanks Not because of those critics stand of the content of the book which they loudly claim as being pornographic but because theyve created such a furor over that book some young people who might otherwise not have read It are picking it up and reading a very startling message about a very serious and misunderstood problem of today drugs The book is a poignant description of one girls attempts and subsequent failure to handle It deserves to be read by as many young people as Publishers of the book could not have come up with a better method of drawing attention to the book than that provided by the upset parents who have deluged every newspaper in the county with their letters of ob jection liable a book pornographic and you automatically draw interest to it Content if the book has any will carry the interest from that point Content Go Ask Alice most certainly has The book is actually the diaries of a young teenage girl who becomes inculcated into the drug scene The shock of the book lies not in the fact that Its a true story but in the way in which this girl was slowly and relentlessly pulled Into something of which she had little understanding and over which she had no control It ends in her death Certainly the book contains a fair amount of strong language But doesnt life Of course that doesnt make it right to use such language In a book that is going to be sitting on a public school book shelf good editing could delete most of it without lessening the punch but having read the book we would conclude that the language is not to the level of being offensive Pornographic The instances that flight be regarded as such are few and far between They were so separate in fact from the intent of the book that they passed by with little thought Portraying sex was not the intent of this book and that s an portant consideration when deciding if something Is pornographic A walk past the magazine rack at the neighborhood milk store could be much more titillating than Go Ask Alice If theres any stimulation in this book Its the stimulation to think No Go Ask Alice is not an improper book for young people to read In fact it could be an important book for them if and this is a big If they receive somft direction and support while reading It That can come in a classroom discussion or over dinner at the family table By providing an open frank look at the questions that Go Ask Alice has to bring up parents teachers and the students can better handle a situation that in todays world even here in Georgetown most teenagers are going to face That as far as were concerned Is the important aspect of this debate Being open and being very frank To hide something away beneath the counter adds a definite taint of darkness and unacceptabillty to it Bring it out Into the open into the light of public scrutiny and analysis and it loses that evil or dirty con notation Trying to hide Go Ask Alice behind a flimsy curtain of censorship would deprive young learning minds of a look Into a world the lessons from which tbey can benefit by For the lessons in Go Ask Alice are very important ones Theyre hard theyre painful but they are all too real They could just possibly make a difference in someones life If it takes calling an important piece of contempor y writing pornographic in to get young people to read it then so be it The end may Justify the means However the means we feel are actually undeserving of the criticism in the first place ALL IN I On the home front I Your trick better be good By Susan Foe end Having looked In stunned amazement at the price of candy I think this Hallowe en I m either going to give away money which la a fairly worthless commodity now anyway or take the tricks I shall simply defy the goblins to do their worst unless they would consider accepting a handshake and my best wishes Some of the larger mouth kids men arenevorsotisfiedwlthlhe handouts they get anyway They look at you with a distinct sneer upon their faces and say things like Geeze Lady Is that I usually find that I can quell them by drawing myself up to my full 9 height glaring up at them and saying Yeah What do you want to make of it sonny boy I remember having a confrontation with son Hi chard lost Hall owe en as I believed he was too old to continue his annual freeloadlng career As usual he conned mc out of my decision by promising to bend his knees all evening in order to save me em harassment As he was dressing up as Quasimodo the hunchback I hoped that not only would that adequately foreshorten him but also be on effective enough disguise to conceal his Identity altogether I later learned to my complete horror thathemanagedtofll goodies in three hours all virtually from one house It appears he discovered a inebriated homeowner who remember from to the next who had last knocked on his door The poor man spent an entire evening distributing largesse to my con son To the tittle ones however It a major highlight of the year and Teresa now five years old believes that every occasion merits a decorating spree Since September she has covered the refrigerator the fireplace our storm door and living room windows with an assortment of banddrawn cutouts begin ning with Thanksgiving turkeys Autumn leaves and apples When she finally the Thanksgiving symbols she graduated to witches moons pumpkins and odd looking cats and upon closer Inspection I notice there are even a few Christmas trees and stockings now interspersed in this colorful collage Teresa decided this year that she was going to shell out as an octopus When I queried her motives she had apparently figured out that with all those extra arms she could carry more bags I am afraid to ask the other two their plans With the number of swimming pools that have made their appearance over the summer I am Just waiting for one of them to think of swimming their way around the district as Jaws Queens Park Commentary Years Ago Guns seized under War Measures Act All weapons were removed from the Georgetown Armouries following the ap plication of the War Measures Act The weapons have been placed In storage in a secret locker somewhere In Toronto All weapons are under close guard until the repeal of the Act In Canada Brenda Crane will receive a special award at this years high school com exercises Brenda was one of north Hal ton girls to receive honors and to be presented with the University Women a Club award A former Georgetown District High School student Brian Wood has completed his training course with the armed forces at Nova Scotia and has received a post in Winnipeg Georgetown will be purchasing a new pumper for the fire department to replace the old truck that has served the area for so many years The sum of 0S was approved for the expenditure that will retire the truck from service and permit the force to keep the antique truck as a souvenir of the post TEN YEARS AGO Mayor Joseph Gibbons plans to go to the Ontario Municipal Board and fight the town decision to install a water tower on land recently acquired on Todd Road He feels the cost of the project would force the town further In debt and that It Is not needed at the time There be four names on the ballots for the federal election to lake place in November Allan Masson PC Horry Harley Liberal Murray Kernlghan and Henry hope to gain favor for themselves and their parties Christmas shoplifting has started early in Georgetown A ladles suede coat was the first Item for thieves at Silvers Department Store Three cars were stolen from area dealers and the Main Street section of town during the week The population of Haitian County has Increased by people since the last taken The area is now one of the Piped oxygen was added to the Georgetown District Memorial Hospital due to the generosity of the Varian Company of Georgetown The company provided the second largest donation for the upgrading of the facility since the building program began FIFTEEN AGO A brief snow storm dumped a light sprinkling of the fluffy white stuff which remained long enough for everyone to accept the fact that the winter was on its way The warm morning sun quickly erased the first effects of winter Georgetown residents were shaken for a moment when an explosion rocked the town The bang was heard by almost the entire town about Workmen at the quarry were in the process of blasting a new section for excavation the following morning This Sunday the 121st anniversary or St John s United Church will be celebrated by the congregation The church was amalgamated in There will be a crackdown in church and charity lotteries offering more than in priics which Is against the Lottery and Gambling Act Groups violating the act will be warned prior to charges being laid The attention is all on the NDP Queen Park Bureau OfThellerald Robert Nixon has been doing his best to have us think otherwise but the Liberals ore going to be In a bad spot and the NDP will be up to its neck In good luck in the session which opened Tuesday The Liberals are going to be handcuffed while the Lewis party will be able to do pretty well anything it wants without worrying The reason is that the Liberals desperately won t want a quick election And to avoid one they probably will as the saying goes have to swallow their spit While the NDP fully aware of this will be able to live recklessly Just as recklessly as it likes Politically Set Back The Liberal problem is that the party at present is to oil practical purposes leader ess Nixon is now only a caretaker and the possibility of having to go to the country under him is unthinkable The situation won t be corrected until the leadership convention In And in he interim times will be dismal for the party legislatively And it also could be set back politically At the session Lewis and his cohorts will be storming to the attack They arc so ot to get off the mark you can pretty well feel it In the air around here The Liberals won t be able to storm They will do their best to give the appearance of vitality and authority But it will have to be a catchascatch can effort and In the final result almost certainly will flounder And It appears Inevitable that the Impression left with the public will be one of political Ineffectiveness Adept The can be expected to get a big press The party In recent years on balance consistently has received more than its share This has been partly because It has concentrated highly on emotional issues good demagoguery and good news And also because it has been adept In ploying the press the quick Lewis witticisms and sword thrusts the pithy If sometimes thoughtless slashes of his colleagues are what the press particularly radio and television eats up In contrast the Liberals will be In the shadows They probably will get trapped into several votes the government which In their long4em interest they should should support but which realistically they will have to squirm out of It looks like a poor lime to be a Liberal Viewpoint A scientific goblin By Gerry borough This week in honour of Halloween Viewpoint looks at goblins and and things that go bump in the dark All are looked upon much more seriously today under the new heading of parap sychology Parapsychology Is a scientific in vestlgaUon of psychic phenomena ESP or Extra Sensory Perception a term that Is widely used today to cover a variety of psycychlc experiences The term itself Is not always used correctly ESP is the belief of many scientists now studying psychic phenomena that we all have ESP though some people are more aware of it than others Professor William Tcnhaeff often referred to as The Father of Parap sychology has been studying the super natural for 50 years He established the first department of parapsychology at University In Holland more than ago looks upon ghosts an a J is real as you or I He has on lb of paranormal phenomena and believes that in the near future parapsychology will be as psychoanalysis is today In Toronto Prof George a Cambridge scientist for more than years now spends all of his time devoted to psychic research He heads the New Research Foundotion parapsychology think tank Many accredited scientists around the world now give credence to paranormal events and are using sober scientific controls to monitor and hopefully explain the energy force behind such happen Is a nicdod that shows auras of psychic power around the fingertips of those who claims ability Perhpas is done without light means of a low pijji electric magnetic gravitational or atomic is who tws recently through his ability etal f con centra lion be da keys turns the dials on watches It Is believed that he is able to emit and control this unknown force Under the heading of parapsychology the following arc some of the paranormal events now oemg studied I It me an event before it happens the ability to read s thoughts to receive or transmit a message through thought alone Auras- the study of of coloured energy around the body as seen by people with psychic ability Psychokinesis- the ability to move matter to bend or move on object mind power alone Ghosts- the study of apparitions or poltergeists noisy ghosts than can move objects Astral projection- the ability to send an double or a body of light away from the mater body attached by an elastic cord This body con view happenings anywhere while the human body sleeps Cialrvoyonce- the ability to discern objects not perceived by the senses photography- photographs made without light of auras of energy around he fingertips of people who are psycychic Pyramldology- the study of the properties to alter natural process by placing In a pyramid shape The above list of phenomena Is not a full description of everything now covered In parapsychology Many of the above wore believed to be the workings of evil or a type of trickery However today with sober scientific study these happenings are now being Investigated In the hope of finding a common cause or nation Toronto members of tne Toronto Society for Psychic Research have mode what some consider to be a milestone in psychic research This group has by thought con central on alone produced a series of rap- pings that would seem to point out that the right frame of mind can produce paranormal phenomena The new f parapsychology will chart explore new frontiers of the mind that may prove more vast and powerful than anything heretofore discovered Itwilloffcro scientific explanation for goblins and ties and things that go bump in the